April 6th - May 4th With a Month Long of Events

Month Long 500+ Low Brow Art
Exhibits, Musical Performances and
Mural Project featuring 12
of the top muralists from around the globe.

Art Whino returns in 2012 for the Third edition of G40. Following the
mission of G40s past, we will once again bring exposure to low brow’s
many faces and, as always, present what new facets emerge within this
ever growing movement. This year G40 focuses on the "Art of the
Mural". In the last 5 years, there have been great bursts of street
artists transforming the city’s urban fabric with large scale mural
artwork. With their powerful and awe evoking size, these murals transform the landscape of the passerby and create a
unique experience to each wall that was once blank and artless.

This year’s G40 will travel to Richmond, VA. and will become the
inaugural opening event of the city’s soon to be announced official art
district. By inviting 12 of the top mural artists from around the globe
to unleash their creativity to 20 large scale walls throughout Richmond,
this project is sure to put the city on the map as a street art
destination. In addition to the large scale murals, we will also
present an exhibit in pop up galleries along the main street of the
district. With canvas work and installations by each mural artist, these
shows will offer the opportunity to experience a more personal scale
and a closer look at the execution and detailing of the mural artists'
work.

As in previous years, we will also present a 500+ artist exhibit that
will highlight all the genres within the low brow style. This year,
instead of concentrating the show in one building we will be in 6
different locations throughout the arts district with exhibits that will
total over 50,000sqft. In these exhibits we will showcase all the
genres within low brow, in this way highlighting the growth of the
movement and the versatility of these artists. Metro Space (119 W. Broad
st.) will house a group show with two floors of talented artists. 115
W. Broad St. will feature large scale installations in an industrial
setting. In G40 tradition, 101 W. Broad Street will showcase room
installations like the ones seen in past years' shows. Art 6, will
feature a Group Show of Florida artists titled "More than Sunshine" and
202 W. Broad Street will feature works by the muralists seen throughout
the city. In Gallery5 we will premiere "Weapons of Mass Change", a
traveling group show to benefit humanitarian missions around the world.
Each artist will be transforming weapons, once used to oppress, and
re-skinning them as unique works of art in the vain of helping humanity.

All of these shows combined will activate 10 city blocks with the large
scale murals, six storefronts housing the massive G40 Group show and
premiering the Weapons of Mass Change traveling exhibit. In this way,
the G40 Summit will leave its mark on Richmond’s Art District. This show
will become a part of the city’s arts culture, which will be further
established as the Mural Project becomes a yearly event for the
district, creating continuity and in turn helping to solidify Richmond
as a major art destination in years to come.

In addition, Art Whino will continue its work with Richmond’s art scene
by joining forces with RVA Magazine to create a new quarterly
publication called "WHINO". This magazine will focus on all aspects of
the Low Brow culture worldwide. The premiere of the magazine will be
launched during the G40 and will bring attention to the inauguration of
the Art District with a month long schedule of Musical performances and
events.

Mural Tours by bioRide
Unveiling of Richmond Murals with bioRide. Tour the city and see the
new, creative and expressive RVA murals that have recently been painted
with Richmond's most premiere transportation, bioRide. For $12 a person,
check out the sites of some of the latest RVA monuments in style and
luxury. Call 804.926.0393 for more information or email ride@bioriderva.com

bioRide is a new transportation service that is fueled off of local
restaurants waste cooking grease, that is processed into biodiesel. The
vehicles are modified to give a new transportation experience that
includes iPads, wi-fi, drinks, awesome drivers, and luxurious Mercedes
and Volkswagens- bioRide is bringing Richmond a new luxury.

Art Whino GalleryArt Whino is a DC based art gallery
whose mission is to bring together the pioneers and freshest talent from around
the world. With over 1200 artists in the Art Whino arsenal, ranging from
California to New York, Germany to Japan and beyond, Art Whino has become an all
encompassing force in the art world. Exhibitions cover the whole spectrum of new
art forms ranging from exposing emerging stencil and wheat pasting artists to
showcasing the most skilled leaders of many different genres.
http://www.artwhino.com/

RVA Magazine - OFFICIAL MEDIAL PARTNERFrom day one (April 2005) we set out to
lend voice to a subdued creative class of Richmond. RVA has succeeded in
creating a brand that searches out the best artists, ideas, events, bands,
photographers and culture-jammers Richmond has to offer and gives them a
platform for exhibition that "gets" them.

Access
to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and
iron ore was to steelmaking. --Richard Florida, economist and author. In a city
best known for it's role in the Civil War (insert eye-rolling here,) the battle
to be bigger than our past has been formidable. For generations, city leaders
have banked on the faded silver of dubious honors - Capital of the Confederacy
etc, and ignored the 21st (and 20th) centuries. With world-class schools such
as VCU growing organically on their own record of excellence, media giants like
the Martin Agency cementing their footprint in our cobblestones, and Fortune 100
companies relocating to attract the hordes of creatives emerging here, Richmond
is exploding. New construction and development is rampant in heretofore decaying
downtown retail and nightlife centers.

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